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complex; a vaccines advisory why not, at the very least of safety and efficacy?
group to WHO identified com- LISTEN to the conversations • You may be vaccine injured
placency, inconvenience in and concerns being raised, with without knowing it and you prob-
accessing vaccines, and lack a view to ensuring that these is- ably think it’s just a condition you
of confidence are key reasons sues are aired and carefully re- have to put up with that occurred
underlying hesitancy. Health searched? naturally?
workers, especially those in • There are connections be-
communities, remain the most Vaccine testing and ap- tween the gut, immune, and
trusted advisor and influencer proval process neurological issues often seen
of vaccination decisions, and Did you know that: in vaccine injuries?
they must be supported to • They affect child develop-
• Most vaccines have not under-
provide trusted, credible in- ment?
gone carcinogenity testing?
formation on vaccines. • By 2016 HPV vaccine had
• Their effects have not been
In 2019, WHO will ramp up studied in pregnant women? been introduced into 5 African
work to eliminate cervical can- • In terms of safety studies, a countries with demonstration
cer worldwide by increasing projects introduced in 15 more?
major issue is that most vaccine
coverage of the HPV vaccine, • A large majority of the Amish,
studies use another vaccine or
among other interventions. a religious community living
the background substance of
2019 may also be the year the vaccine, as the control pla- across the USA claim religious
when transmission of wild po- cebo? That in a study where exemption to vaccination and
lio virus is stopped in Afghan- as such the vast majority are
they used a true saline placebo,
istan and Pakistan. Last year, not vaccinated. They had not re-
the results showed a higher rate
less than 30 cases were re- ported a single case of measles
of infections in the vaccinated?
ported in both countries. WHO • Vaccines interrupt the nor- between 1970 and 1987. At the
and partners are committed to mal immune process in infants same time, non‐Amish highly‐
supporting these countries to vaccinated communities still re-
and can cause serious life-long
vaccinate every last child to ported 2‐3 year epidemics.
problems?
eradicate this crippling dis- • The consumer ‘watchdog’ in
• Trials include too few children
ease for good.” the US that is responsible for
in the age group that will be tar-
geted? evaluation of new drugs before
I, personally, find that their ‘En- they are sold, relies on vaccine
• They only study healthy chil-
glish’ very deliberately minimiz- makers’ studies to determine
dren without personal or family
es the very real and very genu- safety and effectiveness of vac-
histories of vaccine reactions,
ine concerns that parents have autoimmunity, allergy, neuro- cines?
about what has happened to • Pharmaceutical companies
logical disease or concurrent
their children or other people’s can pay the ‘watchdog’ to speed
illness?
children. Citing “complacency, up the approval process?
• Study outcomes dismiss se-
inconvenience and lack of con- • American children are the most
rious health problems, injuries
fidence” barely addresses the and deaths occurring during the highly vaccinated in the world,
issue of death, disability and the the number of vaccines required
trial as not related to the exper-
various physical and mental ef- for school entry has increased
imental vaccine without ade-
fects that are being experienced by approximately 260%. Chil-
quate research evidence-based
daily, for some even hours after dren receive repeated shots for
support?
the injection is given. Films like • There are a growing number of 16 separate illnesses. Counting
Vaxxed I and Vaxxed II, which vaccines administered during
reports of research misconduct,
have put together carefully re- pregnancy and yearly flu shots,
biased reporting, conflicts of in-
searched scientific data on the by the time they are 18 years old
terest, and outright fraudulent
effects of vaccines in the US are they have received up to 73 dos-
activity by pharmaceutical com-
being censored and deliberate- panies who produce the ever es of vaccines? The long-term
ly ridiculed and demeaned. One health effects of their vaccine
growing list of vaccines, bringing
has to ask, that if such societies program are inadequately stud-
into question the accuracy of the
are as open as they say they are ied and their regulatory bodies
vaccine manufacturers’ claims
in their own constitutions, then are conflicted. Childhood health
